Degree in Computer Science from Universitat Jaume I (1996), and doctorate from the University of Oxford (2000). I was a senior researcher at Toshiba Medical Systems (Japan), INRIA (France), and the University of Bern (Switzerland), where I was leading the Surgical Technology Division at the MEM Research Center, Faculty of Medicine. From 2008 until September 2013 I was in charge of the Research Department of the company Alma IT Systems in Barcelona. In October 2013 I was appointed ICREA Research Professor, and joined the Department of Engineering at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where I founded the Barcelona Centre for New Medical Technologies (BCN Medtech). I have more than 140 peer-reviewed journal publications and 300+ conference publications, and have supervised 25 PhD theses. I am co-founder and scientific advisor of the company MiWEndo Solutions S.L., and a Visiting Scientist at the QUANTIC research group of Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

My research focus is on computerised medical image analysis and computer-assisted surgery, including: image processing and computer vision, image-based diagnosis through machine learning, deep learning, medical imaging physics, computational modelling and simulation of virtual organs and surgical interventions, navigation in computer-assisted surgery, surgical devices and implants, and applied clinical research. In addition to basic research with solid mathematical foundations, all my projects have a marked translational character, focusing on concrete clinical and industrial applications.

Methodological research lines include explainable AI applied to healthcare, physics-driven deep learning methods, and quantum computing, in particular quantum machine learning.